Before you all hit Cold on this one, this drive is part of Seagate's new 7200.11 line, featuring double the built-in cache of previous drives posted here, and sustained read speeds of 105MB/s, up from 75MB/s, making it an excellent choice for the terminally impatient.

This is the lowest price around for the drive at the moment. Take the free shipping - eBuyer are currently aiming to get orders out of the door as fast as possible, and it should be with you in only a couple of days.

I like that 5 years warranty on Seagate drives. Amazing to think that two years ago I paid quite a bit more than that for a 200GB drive. A nice quiet drive like this should be good for my media server machine I'll do over Christmas, not that it needs the performance in any way.

Good price for a decent drive, but I wouldn't stand by the specs posted for it, its an average drive for a decent price and not the 'wonder' drive Seagate said it would be. The 7200.10 would still be my choice over it..

Good price for a decent drive, but I wouldn't stand by the specs posted for it, its an average drive for a decent price and not the 'wonder' drive Seagate said it would be. The 7200.10 would still be my choice over it..

why would you recommend the 7200.10 above the 7200.11?

its a tenner difference, it has twice the buffer, it has 105mbps sustainted as apposed to ~70 for the .10, its a few decibles quieter than the .10, this thing beats the raptor in some tests!

the 7200.10 is a seriously average drive, i'd go for the wd5000aaks over that.

that said, the terrabyte drive is better, i'd call the 500gb the 7200.10.5 :)

Just for the sake of balance I would just like to add that I have the previous model to this series and the first arrived DOA from Ebuyer. Sent it back and the replacement works, but it's damned noisy. A 250GB Hitachi drive that I bought just after this is as silent as a baby.

Just be cautious. If silence is golden to you expect to have it disturbed.

Just wondering if i could get some advice. I'm currently running 2x 80GB 10k rpm Raptors in RAID 0 for my OS and programmes and have a separate WD 250Gb for storage which is full of Movies, games etc.. and so i need to upgrade.

I've read somewhere that running 2x 500Gb drives in RAID 0 would be faster than my current setup is this true.

Either way i need to upgrade what would you guys recommend i do. After selling my drives and alike i think my max budget would be around £200. I want to run a RAID 0 and have one separate drive for storage as now. Would you guys recommend i do.

Also i've alway bought Western Digital drives because they've never let me down haven't really experienced the others so cant judge.